Linotype-machine.



ITO-787,769. PATENTED APR. 18, 1905.

' D. S. KENNEDY.-

LINOTYPE MACHINE- AIPLIOATION IiLED JAN. 31. 1905.

UNITED STATES Patented April 18, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID S. KENNEDY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO MERGEN- THALER LINOTYPE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

. LlNOTYPE-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 787,769, dated April 18, 1905.

Application filed January 31, 1905, Serial No. 243,543.

To all whom it may concern; I

Be it known that I, DAVID S. KENNE Y, of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Linotype-hlaohines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to Mergenthaler linotype-machines of the general organization represented in Letters Patent of the United States No. 436,532. In this machine the matrices are stored in an inclined channeled magazine, to which they are delivered at the upper end from the distributer to a channeled throat or guide plate, commonly known as a channel-entrance. It is necessary that the channels of the throat shall register exactly with those of the magazine that the matrices may pass freely from one to the other. In order to permit inspection of the communicating ends of the channels, it has been customary to cut away thetop plate of the magazine at its upper end from one side to the other and to hinge to the magazine a bar or plate to close the opening produced. As the magazine is frequently removed from the machine to be replaced by another containing matrices of a different font, it is found that this loose hinged bar is a matter of serious inconvenience in handling the magazine and that it is liable to be bent or broken.

The aim of my invention is to relieve the magazine of this movable bar and at the same time permit free inspection of the channels; and to this end it consists in the employment of a hinged bar or flap located in the throatplate or guide, which under the present practice is commonly hinged to the main frame in order to remain thereon when the magazine is removed.

ith the exception of the parts specifically described and claimed herein, the machine may be in all respects of ordinary construction.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section through the upper end of the magazine and its throat-plate with my improvement applied thereto. Fig.2 is a perspective view of the plate.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the upper end of the magazine; B, the curved channeled throat-plate carried on a base-frame 5 b, which is mounted on a horizontal pivot 12' in order to permit the throat to be turned backward and down ward away from the magazine, as usual. to permit access to the magazine and to the usual distributer thereover. (Not shown in the drawings.) The pivot b may be located on the main frame of the machine or otherwise supported. .It will be observed that the magazine has both its top and its bottom plates carried to the upper end instead of having the upper plate cut away or shortened, as usual.

O represents the hinged flap or plate lying across the top of the throat B from side to side over its series of partition-plates. 1t 5 serves as a cover or top plate for the throat and as a guard to prevent the ingoing matrices D D from escaping or being accidentally thrown up in such manner as to engage and stop against the end of the magazine and be 7 arrested thereby. The plate O is connected by horizontal pivots 0r hinge-pins c to the throat B, so that it may be turned upward at will, as indicated in dotted lines, to give access to the interior channels and to the matrices if they chance to lodge therein. The lower edge of the plate is preferably rabbeted or shouldered to fit over and make close connection with the end of the magazine.

The essence of the invention lies in using the cover-plate O, which is carried by the throat as distinguished from the magazine and so arranged that it may be moved out of its operative position to give access to the interior. I 5

The form of the parts and other details may be modified at will, provided there is no departure from the mode of action herein shown and described.

Having thus described my invention, what 9 I claim is 1. In a linotype-machine, the combination of a magazine A. channeled throat or entrance, B, and a top plate, O, hinged to the latter and arranged to close against the magazine.

2. In a linotype-machine, the combination of a stationary magazine A, the cooperating throat B, hinged to swing away from the magazine, and the top plate C, hinged to the In testimony whereof I hereunto set my throat. hand, this 26th day of January, 1905, in the 3. The channeled throat or entrance, B,havpresence of two attesting witnesses. ing a movable plate C, applied to its upper DAVID S. KENNEDY. 5 side, whereby access is afforded to the chan- Witnesses:

nels without moving the throat from its op- JOHN R. ROGERS,

erative position. RICHARD M. BEDELL. 

